A knight or bishop on the back rank (1st or 8th) that is not attacked by the opponent.
SAE concept sae_6206 fires when a knight or bishop on the back rank (1st or 8th) that is not attacked by the opponent.. It appears in 16 of 9,950 Climbchess puzzles (0.2%), spanning ELO 1032–2667 (median 1996).
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This page documents A knight or bishop on the back rank (1st or 8th)…, one of 4,505 interpretable chess concepts extracted from Leela Chess Zero via sparse autoencoders. The full feature description from our SAE labelling pipeline reads:
A knight or bishop on the back rank (1st or 8th) that is not attacked by the opponent.
This pattern fires in 16 of our 9,950 tagged puzzles. The puzzles where it appears span ELO 1032 to 2667, with a median rating of 1996. That distribution tells you whether this is a beginner cue or a master-level subtlety.
Pattern statistics
| Concept ID | sae_6206 |
|---|---|
| Puzzles where it fires | 16 |
| Min ELO | 1032 |
| Median ELO | 1996 |
| Max ELO | 2667 |
| Coverage | 0.16% of puzzle set |
Related concepts
The five concepts most often co-firing alongside this one (Jaccard similarity over the puzzle co-occurrence graph) are:
Example puzzles
Below are 10 puzzles spanning the rating distribution. Each links to its own page with full move list and related concepts.
- Puzzle zlRPL — ELO 1032, themes: hangingPiece, mate, mateIn1, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zlRPL_F — ELO 1032, themes: hangingPiece, mate, mateIn1, side to move: White
- Puzzle ksKJh — ELO 1521, themes: doubleBishopMate, long, mate, side to move: White
- Puzzle ksKJh_F — ELO 1521, themes: doubleBishopMate, long, mate, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zv9yf — ELO 1996, themes: advantage, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zv9yf_M — ELO 1996, themes: advantage, defensiveMove, endgame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle yl6PB — ELO 2234, themes: advantage, long, middlegame, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zweAF — ELO 2576, themes: advantage, fork, long, side to move: White
- Puzzle zweAF_F — ELO 2576, themes: advantage, fork, long, side to move: Black
- Puzzle zvr9n_F — ELO 2667, themes: crushing, endgame, exposedKing, side to move: Black
How to use this page
If you want to train this pattern, open the Climbchess trainer and filter for puzzles tagged with this concept. The trainer surfaces them at the right difficulty for your current rating, and tracks how often you spot the cue versus miss it. You can also browse the related concepts above to see neighbouring ideas in feature space.
Climbchess concepts are not heuristics written by a human author. Each one corresponds to a single direction in the residual stream of Leela Chess Zero that activates on a specific board feature, then was labelled by reading the top-activating positions. This makes the catalogue exhaustive (every Leela-detectable pattern is in here somewhere) and falsifiable (you can replay our extraction).
Frequently asked
What is SAE concept sae_6206?
A knight or bishop on the back rank (1st or 8th) that is not attacked by the opponent. It is one of 4,505 interpretable features extracted from Leela Chess Zero's residual stream via sparse autoencoders, then labelled by reading the top-activating positions.
Where does this pattern appear?
In 16 tagged puzzles (0.2% of the set), spanning Lichess ELO 1032 to 2667 with a median of 1996.
How do I train it?
Open the Climbchess trainer and filter for puzzles tagged with this concept. The trainer adapts difficulty using your live recognition profile and tracks how often you spot the cue versus miss it.
Is it free?
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